NCT03501862

Mindfulness Intervention for People With Psychosis

Mindfulness-based Interventions for People With Recent-onset Psychosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

People with psychosis demonstrated a tendency to use maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies as compared with healthy control groups. The present study is the first randomized controlled trial of group mindfulness-based intervention for psychosis. Half group will join the mindfulness-based cognitive intervention while another half will participate in psychoeducation to examine whether mindfulness will have a positive impact on emotion regulation and distress.

Detailed description

Concurrently with positive and negative symptoms, affective symptoms and full affective disorder episodes are common in psychotic disorders particularly in the acute phase of illness. Affective symptoms are a significant risk factor accounting for approximately 5-6% of suicide rates which remain or becomes higher shortly after a psychotic episode or hospital discharge (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). It has been proved that the emotion management and cognitive reappraisal were negatively associated with schizophrenia. In the study, it is hypothesized that the intervention will have a positive impact on psychotic symptoms, general symptoms such as affective symptoms, psychological flexibility, mindfulness skills, quality of life and re-hospitalization by facilitating strategies on emotion regulation.

Conditions

• Recent-onset Psychosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (psychosis)	A small group intervention is based on a structured and validated protocol that will include mindfulness practice, cognitive skills
BEHAVIORAL	Psychoeducation (psychosis)	A small group intervention will be focusing on understanding of psychosis, treatment, relapse prevention and useful information and resources.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-15
• Primary completion: 2021-07-31
• Completion: 2021-07-31
• First posted: 2018-04-18
• Last updated: 2021-09-27

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: China, Hong Kong